Re: Etymology question

--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> Gary Shannon wrote:
<snip>
> >
> >As a kid in Michigan in the late 1940's we did not
> say
> >"oxen free", but "all's in free".
> >
> >
>
> Hmm.  Makes the 'German borrowing' idea more likely
> - 'alle sind frei'?
That was my impression.  Also, my hometown in Michigan
had a very large Dutch population, and an annual
Holland Tulip Festival. So it might have come to my
neighborhood German -> Dutch -> English.

--gary

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